Incubation

Make Yourself at Home Among People Who Can Help

You’ve just been chartered to open a school in NYC…now what? Do you and your fellow planning team members intend to strategize at each other’s dining room tables? Will you constantly be running to Staples to copy your recruitment flyers? Will you be interviewing potential teachers in coffee shops?

If you are interested in establishing a professional working environment, while receiving supports and resources from NYC’s leading school start-up experts, then the Charter Center’s New School Incubation Program is for you. Over 50 of NYC’s charter schools have incubated in the Charter Center’s office spaces over the years. Incubators have unlimited access to everything from supplies and photocopiers to phones and meeting rooms. In addition, as an Incubator you have the opportunity to participate in a community of learning that includes other colleagues starting schools as well as unlimited access to Charter Center staff and our many resources and exemplars.

Participation in the Incubation Program includes:

24/7 secured access to your own dedicated cubicle space in the Charter Center

Lower Manhattan office with proximity to A,C,E,4,5, 1,2,3, J and R subway trains, as well as the PATH train

Full use of high-speed internet & WiFi

Assigned phone number extension for direct contact and full phone service including voicemail

Free coping, printing, scanning, faxing & office supplies

Use of mailing address with Fed Ex and daily mail service for recruitment, enrollment and community outreach

Opportunity to connect with and learn from other colleagues starting a school

Access to Charter Center staff, who can assist with operations set-up, public relations, community engagement strategies, charter law and data requests

Ability to defer rental payment

Eligibility:

Space is limited. To be eligible, applicants must:

Have been authorized to open a charter school in New York City in 2018

Demonstrate a need for space

Possess a desire to collaborate

Cost:

$675 per month; eight-month minimum commitment with the option to extend monthly through August 24, 2018. The cost can be written into your CSP start-up grant request. Fees payable to the Charter Center upon receipt of the first CSP grant check in June 2018.Apply Now

“I don’t know what schools that don’t incubate at the Charter Center do. The support from both the Charter Center staff and our fellow incubating schools has been amazing and helped get Unity Prep off to a great start. The meeting space and office equipment alone made life much easier for our staff and parents, from recruitment to enrollment.”

Joshua Beauregard
Head of School
Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn

“Starting out, I had no idea how valuable an experience incubating our school at the Charter Center would be. Knowing now the plethora of supports, resources, and meeting space that we had access to and made use of, I do not know what we would have done without it. Going into our first year, we just didn’t know what we didn’t know and the Charter Center helped us along every step of the way.”

Aaron Gillaspie
Head of School
Brilla College Prep Public Charter School